While attempting to track down the cause of some unexplained disk activity, a reader discovered that it was caused by a background process associated with running MS Word v.X demo. Bill Miller writes: ...

Some people have wondered why Disk Utility shows a 25-35MB/sec transfer rate when the hard drive installed on the system is a SATA II device that has a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 300MB/sec.

For those Mac users who love to push their hardware to its limits, the OS X Activity Monitor (found in Applications > Utilities) can be a handy tool. I often use it to find out if one process or ...

Dave Stephens was a frisbee player before his friends convinced him to try a cousin of the sport: disc golf. Stephens, of Elgin, Ill., tried his hand at his newly found activity for the first time at ...

Sometimes your Mac may not run as smoothly or as quickly as you expect. And the culprit may be a single application. A lone app can bump into performance issues, slowing down not just itself but your ...

I started up this morning and did some video capture and editing. I expect a lot of hard disk thrashing whilst Premiere is running. But I finished and closed the program down, and still hear loads of ...

Disc golf courses feature metal baskets with chains on each hole. This basket is on the Utah Valley University course. (Gavin Fowler) Disc golf is a growing sport that provides cheap fun for students ...

Hi.<BR><BR>For some reason, my workstation's hard disk becomes very active a few minutes after the screen saver kicks in. It sounds like it is doing a chkdsk or defrag. The minute I touch the mouse, ...